[Dovecot] Maildir parent directory permissions incorrect for new mailbox
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 28 04:07:16 EEST 2011
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 17:35 +0100, Dominic Marks wrote:
> My issue is with the automatic creation of parent directories above new
> maildirs. It seems to be that they're being set with incorrect (or
> unhelpful) permissions, applying the permissions of the mailbox down the
> path towards the mailbox root, as opposed to taking the permissions of
> the mailbox root up towards the mailbox.
>
> Our mail is stored under the scheme:
>
> location = maildir:/var/dovecot/mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/%d/%n
See if chmod g+s /var/dovecot/mail solves your troubles. The same for
index dir.
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